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  • To be honest, waving a hand is a pretty natural thing to do while talking…

    Like, I’m all about Jar Jar as a powerful force user, I just think like Anakin, he had comparatively little training, if any. And likely didn’t know he was using the force, just lucky.

    That also explains how he grew up and lived on a single planet with just his own people. If he was an actual Sith, how did he get trained? Also, it can explain how his people eventually figured it out.

    When Jar Jar was around he always came out on top, and even tho he didn’t make any sense, if you talked to him you ended up agreeing with him, then after he left it’d wear off and they’d realize it was a stupid sounding idea, but the stupid idea always seemed to work out.

    If they were afraid of him, they’d have treated him better, instead he was treated as a freak that above all else, his own people that knew him best just wanted to avoid him, even if he was incredibly useful.

    Like an old timey witch. They didn’t like him because he was so strange, but they still saw his value and understood they may need him. When all else failed, they could always fall back on a Jar Jar plan, so stupid that it just worked.

    I feel like that type of begrudginged acceptance explains the interactions more than everyone being scared of him.

    But it’s been a long time since I watched the prequels.


  • waves hand

    Nah bro, it’s total normal for a planet ruling monarch to immediately throw her life plan away for a monk she met once when he was 8 years old and his religious order had just started suppressing his emotions…

    To be clear tho, this is one of those head cannon post fact rationalition things. I’m not saying George wrote it intentionally like this. But we have what we have to go on.

    With that and logic, Anakin was likely doing it to everyone. He was an emotionally stunted 8 year old in a teenagers body deep in puberty with an incomparable amount of power he didnt know how to use. He was always doing what an 8 year old would think is cool, and mind tricking people into thinking it’s awesome. That’s why kids loved those movies. Anakin did what kids would want to do and his magic bacteria just made every other character play along like it wasn’t insane.

    Like the theory Jar-Jar was actually really powerful, but for him instead of flashy showboating, he just stumbles thru insane situations, looking like a complete idiot but still getting the same result.

    Same thing, just manifesting differently due to their own perception of themselves. And Palps used both as tools, like a lion taking the antelope that strays from the herd.

    Which is why the Jedi mindwashing was so important for a unified organization. If force manifests based on how the user sees themselves, then you’d want your army of force users to all have the same self opinion.


  • If Darth Vader didn’t force roofie his childhood crush, at the bare minimum he was a manipulative asshole and was just saying/doing whatever shed like, just so she’s like him.

    Considering how often Jedis use mind tricks, and how Anakin gets corrupted by the dark side, it really doesn’t seem like he’d hold back from doing that.

    From what I know of the force, it might not even be controllable?

    Like, if you had the highest magic bacteria count as an angry teenager who wasn’t conditioned to suppress every emotional or idea of a romantic life, it might take literal effort not to have the Force influence it.

    If everyone else has been suppressing emotions since infants, no one else would know to tell him to watch out for it happening. Maybe Yoda would remember cuz he’s old? I don’t know how long “no boning” was a rule.



  • AI is shit.

    Facial recognition is shit.

    But none of that was really the issue here:

    Lipps spent nearly four months in a Tennessee jail without bail - classified as a fugitive, she had no hearing, no interview, nothing. North Dakota officers didn’t retrieve her until October 30, 108 days after the arrest. October 31 was her first court appearance and the first time police spoke to her, reports InForum.

    Arrested and thrown in jail for 108 days before seeing any sort of judge is a constitutional violation.

    We hear about this because it’s an obvious wrong case to an old innocent grandma…

    But it’s not the only time it’s happening. And if this happened to her, it can happen to anyone.

    A lazy/dumb cop or ICE agent can just declare you’re someone they’re looking for, and by the time it’s settled your life is destroyed.

    We can’t keep kicking police reform down the road.

    We can’t settle for moderate politicians who say they’ll try on a few issues.

    We need politicians who understand that everything is fucked and desperately needs fixed across the board.


  • It’s been a minute, but I thought the tokens represented compute time

    But then they realized people valued the idea of compute time more than the compute time.

    So it became similar to crypto, where it was just used as a currency.

    The part about gaining control I thought was something else, where Pied Piper didn’t have 50% of accounts on an app, just a majority. And due to the decentralized nature of their software, whoever had the majority controlled the code. So the Chinese and Gavin set up a zombie network of bot phones to gain 50% in a hostile takeover once the boys were switched from independent accounts to an organization.

    But like I said, it’s been a minute and sometimes I’m wrong.

    But I think they were two separate iterations of what the company was at the time


  • AI companies who can’t find anyone to buy their product, swear their employees would rather have their product in exchange for labor rather than money…

    Which could easily be used to buy the product no one outside the company is buying.

    This is just a way to juice metrics and claim this “compensation” as sales on the books.

    And I’m almost positive the “per user growth” they’re talking about is just how brain rot addicts will use chatbots for everything once their brain atrophies from not using it. But just by mentioning that they had to admit that overall use wasn’t a metric they wanted to talk about.

    It’s like how a small percentage of drinkers (the alcoholics) buy the vast amount of alcohol. Less people drinking is bad for the company, and a few alcoholics can’t sustain the company without being replaced by new addicts.

    Edit:

    Also, isn’t this literally a plot point from Silicon Valley?

    Like, their desperation move to get funding at some point was handing out compute tokens, but the only people who wanted to buy it was their competitors because non of the companies had customers?


  • Hilton, a Fox News commentator, leads the pack with 19 percent of likely voters in the latest UC Berkeley Citrin Center for Public Opinion Research-POLITICO poll. Behind him is a pile-up of virtually tied candidates — Democrat Tom Steyer at 13 percent and, with 11 percent each, Democrats Katie Porter and Eric Swalwell and Republican Chad Bianco.

    Porter’s the only good option…

    But Cali’s primary system means only top two advance, so it’s likely to be Hilton and Steyer, so no matter who wins, the people of Cali lose. Just a question of how badly they lose.

    Steyer and Swalwell won’t drop, they’d rather two Republicans make it than a single progressive.





  • Yep, Amazon is already paid, it’s stuff the seller values so little that when it’s returned by a buyer instead of paying a small restock or shipping fee, they leave it unclaimed.

    The absolute only way this could happen organically is one buyer ordered all that RAM, and for some reason returned it. Then the seller’s only logical reason for not paying a restocking fee or even shipping to get product back, is the seller went out of business.

    Sure, it might happen once or twice, ever. But after that, you still have to be the one that randomly gets that pallet.

    It’s not just buying a winning lotto ticket.

    It’s someone else finding a lotto ticket for a drawing that’s already happened, and buying it for an insane markup even though it’s almost guaranteed to not be the winning numbers. Hell, more like you’re the third person to buy it after someone found it.


  • Huh?

    Return pallets have been a thing, they’re always $100 and usually include $10 of the same plastic junk.

    When someone actually hits like this, it’s a one in a billion chance and that’s why it always makes the news cycles. Which causes everyone to buy one.

    Amazon isn’t losing money on these, and there’s a good chance they intentionally let boxes like this go out only when they’re not selling enough pallets.

    Meaning the absolute worst time to try it is now. And it’s never really a good idea.

    You’re better off buying an actual lotto ticket, at least that’s easy to throw away when you lose.